You can smell it in the air: tonight was the unofficial end of the 2008 presidential race. For Obama it smells like victory. Meanwhile the McCain campaign is now unmistakably giving off the stench of defeat. Tonight's debate once again proved how crucial optics and...
Author: Paul Campos
Ah, democracy. McCain is so screwed that people who actually believe the lies in his most vile attack ads still won't vote for him:I just got an astounding email from.
It looks increasingly likely that the McCain-Palin ticket will go down to a crushing defeat three weeks from today. One perennial trope of American political journalism is that once a.
If you're an old-style Bill Buckley paleo-conservative I would guess you'd have to go back to about November 1964 to find a worse month.After a generation of your political party being in control of most or all branches of the federal government for the large...
Dave and Hilzoy have noted some concerns on the part of our friends on the Right that Barack Obama may not actually be what he appears to be -- a.
I wouldn't bother with this subject except for the fact that Sullivan is both very widely read and published on the Atlantic's web site, so he's sort of kosher from.
Who is 68 today in minus space time or plus soul time.Random thoughts:(1) Lennon's murder may have had more emotional impact on me than any other public event (I was 21 at the time Lennon was killed so I'm just barely old enough to remember...
I only allude to the point in this column, but what makes people like Ayers and Kissinger similar is that, if your socio-economic status is high enough, it's very difficult.
And I do mean white.In case you're not interested in doing a header into a cyber-sewer, here are some highlights:"I have 14 grandchildren . I do not want them growing.
That's apparently as good an explanation as any for the strange behavior of NFL coaches at the end of games. For instance, tonight Minnesota gets to the New Orleans 14-yard-line in a tie game with 1:10 to go. The Saints have two time outs left,...
In that spirit, Kaus on the VP debate:Big loser, again, is Hillary. In two years Palin will be so much better she won't even be in the same league. ...The.
It's surely highly-paid TV pundits who are completely obsessed with bizarrely involuted meta-critiques of politics as infotainment theater.Yglesias is spot on regarding this, but I think what he's saying can.